Vocabulary
Water Cycle Processes
Earth's Water
Weather
Weather Tools
100
Scientists use this term when measuring the saltiness of a body of water.
What is salinity?
100
Water changing from its liquid form into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
100
A large amount of Earth's fresh water is frozen in ______.
What are glaciers?
100
A _____ ______ carries warm air.
What is a warm front?
100
Device used to measure the amount of air pressure.
What is a barometer?
200
The rock and soil layer in which groundwater is able to flow through.
What is an aquifer?
200
Ice becomes water vapor without melting first.
What is sublimation?
200
Water should go to a _____ ___________ _____ before people drink it.
What is a water treatment plant?
200
Winds that can move an air mass.
What is jet stream?
200
Device with cups that spin as the wind speed changes.
What is an anemometer?
300
Lakes that have formed behind dams.
What is a reservoir?
300
Rain, snow, hail, and sleet that fall from clouds.
What is precipitation?
300
Water in the form of invisible gas.
What is water vapor?
300
Precipitation, average temperatures, and temperature changes in an area over an extended period of time, usually at least thirty years.
What is climate?
300
Cylinder-shaped device with a ruler on the side that measures precipitation.
What is a rain gauge?
400
Raindrops that are frozen.
What is sleet?
400
Water vapor changes into liquid.
What is condensation?
400
These are formed by water droplets and ice crystals.
What are clouds?
400
Forecasters look for _______ of weather change to predict future weather.
What are patterns?
400
Used to find the amount of moisture in the air.
What is a hygrometer?
500
Rain or melted snow that has seeped into the ground.
What is groundwater?
500
Accumulates when water vapor cools and condenses.
What is dew?
500
A type of cloud at ground level.
What is fog?
500
____ ____________ affects the steps of the water cycle.
What is air temperature?
500
These help scientists understand climate changes long ago.
What are fossils?
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